heighten
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"On the new journey ahead, we must heighten our sense of vigilance against potential dangers," he said during Monday's event.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Anthropic urged Congress to penalise the companies behind the alleged attacks and heighten measures to prevent US technology from being stolen.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Bank of Canada Gov. Tiff Macklem warned that widening global imbalances and nonbank lenders heighten economic disruption risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Still, the central bank’s view that underlying consumer inflation may exceed its 2% price stability target suggests a potential acceleration in the pace of rate hikes if such risks heighten, he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Finally, to top it all off and heighten its dramatic appeal, the petition arrived under the signature of Benjamin Franklin, whose patriotic credentials and international reputation were beyond dispute.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Noussair Mazraoui is the back-up left-back, which only heightens the debate over the wisdom not to buy one before the transfer window closed.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
“Lee” Xinyuan Li’s lighting heightens the sense of theatrical foreboding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Feeding wild birds heightens the risk of disease transmission at feeding locations.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
The risk of smashups heightens the excitement at more than a dozen docking events around the bay, which can pull in several thousand spectators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Let neither prosperity nor adversity deaden 'the fresh feeling after Nature' which the use of the rod and reel always heightens or confers.
From The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle by Charles Barker Bradford
Some observers felt he looked tired against City, which only heightened questions around his involvement against Azerbaijan champions Sabah FK in the Champions League.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Conductor Corrado Rovaris tended to push the tempi, however, which heightened the excitement but left little space for expressivity and nuance in the rage arias and other moments of high drama.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Fears are heightened over rogue AI after OpenAI technology operating outside human supervision hacked into Hugging Face, a repository of AI models.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Safety concerns around technology have also heightened as companies double down on advancing artificial intelligence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
This unreal feeling was heightened when, after half an hour, she reached another High Street, more or less the same as the one she had left behind.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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The company has bolstered the memory capacity on its devices to support these capabilities — simultaneously heightening its supply-chain cost pressures.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
“Many jurisdictions do not have the protocols in place to manage the development, release, and deployment of advanced frontier AI models, heightening risks for the financial sector and beyond,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The outbreak is still not under control and is taking place in a conflict zone with very mobile populations – heightening the need for a vaccine to help stop the spread of disease.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
But the Middle East conflict has strained shipping routes through the Strait of Hormuz, a key route for supplies, heightening unease among farmers ahead of the July-October sowing period.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
He could feel a heightening of interest in the room.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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